We hiked the GDT in 2021 with our son Toothless. Before we left on the thru hike we wrote a post breaking down the gear we decided to bring. This post will list out our main systems and gear and document how they worked out for us on the GDT in 2021 with our 8 … Continue reading GDT 2021 Final Gear List
We are hiking the GDT this time around with our son, Toothless. He will be about 8 months old when we start hiking. Over the past few months we have been working out what gear to bring on the GDT with him. We have been overcoming his constantly changing needs as well as gear shortages. … Continue reading GDT 2021 Gear List
A while back I wrote about our initial plans for a baby sleep system for backpacking on the GDT. After some initial tests we found that our original plan wasn't going to work out and we needed to find something that worked for our baby Toothless. I wrote about our success when we camped at … Continue reading Gear Selection: Baby Sleep System 2
Sleeping Pad Rigid sleeping pad Its not recommended to let a baby sleep on an inflatable sleeping pad. The current recommendations are for babies to sleep on firm sleeping surfaces. So inflatable pads are out, and we don't co-sleep, so Toothless needs his own rigid sleeping pad. We have selected the ZLite SOL. These are … Continue reading Gear Selection: Baby Sleep System
Read Part 1 here After deciding to focus on selecting a non structured carrier to hike the GDT with Toothless, we did a bit more research, selected a carrier and have been testing it out. The Options We started off looking at the following three carriers. These were identified by looking for front baby carriers … Continue reading Gear Selection: Baby Carrier Part 2
Our hopes for the summer of 2021 have been set high for attempting a thru hike with our baby, "Toothless"NOTE1, during our parental leave. A key piece of gear to select is a way to carry him. The trip planning itself is still in progress because it's much slower to plan a thru hike when … Continue reading Gear Selection: Baby Carrier
Hopefully the last item we purchase (other than food and consumables) before we head out on the Great Divide Trail this summer. Overall the sleeping pad, stuff sack, and pump sack add about 100g compared to our current sleeping pad set-up, but when used with our MYOG quilt, we will save about 1kg and have … Continue reading New Gear Day: Exped Synmat Duo Sleeping Pad
The two of us have degrees in engineering so when it comes to selecting and optimizing our gear we often draw on that background to help with the selection process. When gear is purely performance based with less dependence on comfort or fit then it lends itself to that kind of selection process quite … Continue reading Gear Selection: Bear Canisters
Backpacks & Bike Racks 